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Adirondack case guy 02-27-2013 12:42:42 74.69.160.79 Report to Moderator	Well, as I have stated several times, our dealership started out of the back room and woodshed of the farmhouse in 1931. An old out building evolved into a one tractor shop down behind the house, and then Gramps built a cynder block building across from the house where a couple of tractors could be split and repaired along with parts storage area. In 1948 my dad built the building in the first pic. a 1/2mile from the farm on US20. In 1965, the year I graduated, Dad had plans for an expansion on the building he built in 1948. In 68 we built the building out back for storage, but it was necessary to close that in and use it for summer shop, and winter storage. I don't know what the first truck big enough to haul a tractor with was, but, the first one I remember was a 1953 Chevy. Eventually it turned into a farm trailer which is still up at the farm. About 1960 Dad bought a Chevy cabover., and a tilt bed body and patterned it after the Ford tilt bead that Case was promoting, complete with flambeau and ds paint. It's picured in pic#2. That truck was replaced with another Chevy C60, with a new 24ft bed. Later I bought a used Louisville L9000, and put the tiltbed on that. (pic.4 it was behind the shop being painted, and shown in #5) In 70 it became necessary to aquire a tractor trailer to transport the bigger, heavier tractors with cabs. I found this 66 7040 single axle, with a Cummins 220, and a Swartz 38' machinery trailer with hyd tail,tip outs, and winch. We ran the trailer until we closed down in 1986. It served us well. About 1982 I aquired the IH Eagle. It had a 318 Detroit in it. It was a single screw, with air tag. We ran it until we closed, in 1986. We opened a satellite store In Fultonville, NY in 1983. with a former Case dealer. That business reopened in 1988, and is still operating as a CNH dealer. I stayed there with them until 1992. Sorry about the rambling. I was going to post about our dealer trucks but had to scan some arial pics of the dealership to do so, and the post mushroomed from there. The last pic is a Case Fleet Truck, that made a delivery to us. Loren [Reply]   [No Email]
NickatKY 02-28-2013 14:27:09 98.93.251.31 Report to Moderator	Re: Picture history from our Dealership 1950-1987 in reply to Adirondack case guy, 02-27-2013 12:42:42   Thanks for the pics/story. Old dealership pictures are my favorite. Do you have any pics from inside the dealership? Nick [Reply]  [No Email]
Don Rudolph 02-28-2013 13:22:06 99.188.18.125 Report to Moderator	Re: Picture history from our Dealership 1950-1987 in reply to Adirondack case guy, 02-27-2013 12:42:42   Loren, Great photos of your Case dealership! I sure miss those days when dealers were family owned and within easy driving distance. We are really fortunate to still have a NH dealer near us, but for how long??????? Don [Reply]  [No Email]
Classic Case 02-28-2013 03:11:04 72.228.46.251 Report to Moderator	Re: Picture history from our Dealership 1950-1987 in reply to Adirondack case guy, 02-27-2013 12:42:42   I miss your dealership! You may recognize this tractor, this 770 was sold from your dealership! Soon to be coming home! [Reply]  [No Email]
McKerrow630 02-28-2013 02:15:52 50.105.83.206 Report to Moderator	Re: Picture history from our Dealership 1950-1987 in reply to Adirondack case guy, 02-27-2013 12:42:42   Love the old pic"s Loren, it ain"t rambl"en it just share"en history stuff for the oldfarts. Thanks [Reply]  [No Email]
tractorkrum 02-27-2013 21:00:31 173.245.134.218 Report to Moderator	Re: Picture history from our Dealership 1950-1987 in reply to Adirondack case guy, 02-27-2013 12:42:42   Really great pictures. It would be interesting to know how many of the tractors or implements still exists today that are in the pictures. [Reply]  [No Email]
Fixerupper 02-27-2013 18:49:01 100.42.82.30 Report to Moderator	Re: Picture history from our Dealership 1950-1987 in reply to Adirondack case guy, 02-27-2013 12:42:42   Wow! I love the pics and the commentary. Well done. Jim [Reply]  [No Email]
Chuck Machinist 02-27-2013 18:11:58 96.225.131.208 Report to Moderator	Re: Picture history from our Dealership 1950-1987 in reply to Adirondack case guy, 02-27-2013 12:42:42   ILL be pouring over these pics for days Loren.Thanks for showing yalls history with Case! [Reply]  [No Email]
Shane Lovelace 02-27-2013 18:06:41 67.216.121.4 Report to Moderator	Re: Picture history from our Dealership 1950-1987 in reply to Adirondack case guy, 02-27-2013 12:42:42   Awsome pictures! I like the cabovers too! [Reply]  [No Email]
jic 02-27-2013 16:06:18 66.103.107.4 Report to Moderator	Re: Picture history from our Dealership 1950-1987 in reply to Adirondack case guy, 02-27-2013 12:42:42   wow neat pics. dealer i worked for hine and weber in lebanon, indiana started in 1950. they sold out to case in 1969 became case power and equipment john hine became the store manager. he then retired about 1991. case sold the dealership to some jerk and he ran it into the ground lost most of the customers. bane equipment wingate, indiana who started in 1967 then bought the lebanon dealership. and turned things around. then had six dealerships as of jan. 1 added 2 more dealers. now called bane-welker. bane is the only original case dealer left in the state of indiana. [Reply]  [No Email]
Case Nutty 1660 02-27-2013 15:52:45 75.127.24.27 Report to Moderator	Re: Picture history from our Dealership 1950-1987 in reply to Adirondack case guy, 02-27-2013 12:42:42   great pics Bro!! we will have to chat further about these [Reply]  [No Email]
jon f mn 02-27-2013 14:48:21 70.196.198.0 Report to Moderator	Re: Picture history from our Dealership 1950-1987 in reply to Adirondack case guy, 02-27-2013 12:42:42   Very interesting pics Loren. I like seeing this kind of stuff. [Reply]  [No Email]
NY 986 02-27-2013 13:09:30 67.142.178.26 Report to Moderator	Re: Picture history from our Dealership 1950-1987 in reply to Adirondack case guy, 02-27-2013 12:42:42   Looks like you had Hesston and New Idea to round things out. This should be shared on tractor talk for those who do not come on the Case board often such as myself. Hard to imagine all the dealers that closed in New York back in the 1980's especially plus the other eras. I could probably count off a hundred names of dealers who are not around anymore that existed when I was a kid in the 1970's. For the guys complaining about the mega dealers out West there are extremely few single location dealers here in New York at the present. [Reply]  [No Email]
fullpull88 02-27-2013 16:02:23 70.194.67.112 Report to Moderator	Re: Picture history from our Dealership 1950-1987 in reply to NY 986, 02-27-2013 13:09:30   Are you talking about the Evil Empire in Cazanovia? ;) [Reply]  [No Email]